page_title: Shelley McNamara
hierarchical_section_title: Shelley McNamara
caption_attribution_description: English: Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects in 2013
context_page_description: Shelley McNamara is an Irish architect and academic. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to prominence in the early 2010s, specialising in stark, weighty but spacious buildings for higher education. McNamara has taught architecture at University College Dublin since 1976 and at several other universities.
  The Grafton practice was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal and their building for the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología in Lima, Peru, was awarded the 2016 RIBA International Prize, as the best new building in the world that year. McNamara and Farrell shared the 2020 Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest award.
context_section_description: Shelley McNamara (born 1952) is an Irish architect and academic. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to prominence in the early 2010s, specialising in stark, weighty but spacious buildings for higher education. McNamara has taught architecture at University College Dublin since 1976 and at several other universities.
  The Grafton practice was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal and their building for the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología in Lima, Peru, was awarded the 2016 RIBA International Prize, as the best new building in the world that year. McNamara and Farrell shared the 2020 Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest award.
caption: McNamara in 2013
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